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Re: Chicago's first gas works
Posted by:
Jeff_Weiner
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Date: August 13, 2014 10:17PM
nordsider Wrote:
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> Jeff,
>
> This forum should steer away from political
> controversy; I prefer scientific facts . . . time
> will tell.
Carbon dioxide. Coal tar. Ammonia. Cyanogen. All by-products of coal gas production, along with producer gas and various grades of coke. And thanks to heavy crude, we have tons of coke already on the southeast side in the form of petcoke. My question is why they are building this plant. All valid points, all can be covered by science, and the politics will come later. And I say that as a retired civil engineer.
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> Jeff,
>
> This forum should steer away from political
> controversy; I prefer scientific facts . . . time
> will tell.
Carbon dioxide. Coal tar. Ammonia. Cyanogen. All by-products of coal gas production, along with producer gas and various grades of coke. And thanks to heavy crude, we have tons of coke already on the southeast side in the form of petcoke. My question is why they are building this plant. All valid points, all can be covered by science, and the politics will come later. And I say that as a retired civil engineer.
Re: Chicago's first gas works
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: August 14, 2014 09:19AM
Jeff,
I believe that the reason for building the plant is seriously flawed. One prime example is to bury "sequester" carbon dioxide anywhere, including the proposal to first pipe it from the plant at - Burley Avenue around 116th Street, between Lake Calumet and the I-90 expressway - to an underground site downstate.
I believe that the reason for building the plant is seriously flawed. One prime example is to bury "sequester" carbon dioxide anywhere, including the proposal to first pipe it from the plant at - Burley Avenue around 116th Street, between Lake Calumet and the I-90 expressway - to an underground site downstate.
Re: Chicago's first gas works
Posted by:
Jeff_Weiner
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Date: August 14, 2014 01:33PM
nordsider Wrote:
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> Jeff,
>
> I believe that the reason for building the plant
> is seriously flawed. One prime example is to bury
> "sequester" carbon dioxide anywhere, including
> the proposal to first pipe it from the plant at -
> Burley Avenue around 116th Street, between Lake
> Calumet and the I-90 expressway - to an
> underground site downstate.
Well, I'm actually not too worried about this proposal, for three reasons:
1. There's another article about People's [u]not[/u] buying coal gas, so they have no market here in Chicago;
2. The articles are both 3 years old;
3. The only news I've heard from the Southeast Side is about turning a lot of that factory land into a park and retail space. I doubt having a gas plant in that mix would work.
I may be wrong, of course...
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> Jeff,
>
> I believe that the reason for building the plant
> is seriously flawed. One prime example is to bury
> "sequester" carbon dioxide anywhere, including
> the proposal to first pipe it from the plant at -
> Burley Avenue around 116th Street, between Lake
> Calumet and the I-90 expressway - to an
> underground site downstate.
Well, I'm actually not too worried about this proposal, for three reasons:
1. There's another article about People's [u]not[/u] buying coal gas, so they have no market here in Chicago;
2. The articles are both 3 years old;
3. The only news I've heard from the Southeast Side is about turning a lot of that factory land into a park and retail space. I doubt having a gas plant in that mix would work.
I may be wrong, of course...
